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(05/10/07 6:09am)
For giddy high school seniors across the country, years of stressful schoolhouse preparation and anticipation for the "best years of their lives" recently culminated as prospies signed on the dotted line of an admissions offer and sealed their collegiate destiny, marking their most momentous decision to date. And many will have made the wrong decision. Welcome to the world of the transfer student.
(05/07/07 5:53am)
Alternative rockers Third Eye Blind hit the artificial turf of Leverone Field House Sunday night to deliver a high-energy 90-minute set that attracted an eclectic audience of Dartmouth undergrads and Hanover High School kids alike.
(04/25/07 4:51pm)
It's not that I haven't liked my Undergraduate Advisors during my sophomore and junior years. Without a doubt, I enjoy the sugary surprises my UGA randomly leaves at the foot of my door. And I appreciate the hallway bulletin board that conveniently posts "emergency" phone numbers to local pizza joints, Safety and Security and Dick's House (in that order).
(04/13/07 9:00am)
"Our first event qualifies for course credit at Dartmouth College: trick pouring," Duffman announced at the Duff Beer bartending competition on "The Simpsons." Perpetuating the College's stereotype for being soaked in hops and malt, this reference offers another reminder of Dartmouth's reputation among Ivy rivals.
(03/27/07 9:00am)
As the mercury begins to rise and snow banks recede, "spring fever" will begin to spread from the Green to Baker Library (well, at least the stacks) and beyond. The thriving hook-up culture at Dartmouth will once again become quite apparent. At the same time, dames and Don Quixotes frustrated with the lacking romance in Hanover will inevitably hand down their indictments of the social scene -- and give Dartmouth an unfair rap.
(11/06/06 11:00am)
Each election cycle, the youth attempts to rally itself from political apathy and inaction into a force powerful enough to demand the attention of our nation's policymakers. With recent disappointedly low turnout figures, and in spite of P. Diddy's stark ultimatum to "vote or die," America's youth has failed to "rock the vote." Last Friday, the Dartmouth Editorial Board justly railed against the political idleness that plagues American students ("Casting an Informed Vote," Nov. 3).
(08/08/06 9:00am)
With the demise of Tubestock, a hallmark of sophomore summer for the past 20 years and an event that students have looked forward to since freshman fall, many sophomores feel that a right of their summer was taken away from them. In an attempt to fill the social vacuum left in Tubestock's wake, the 2008 Class Council has rolled out, to mixed reactions, a terrestrial-based alternative: Fieldstock.
(07/25/06 9:00am)
"Camp Dartmouth" brings students a variety of new opportunities that do not exist during the rest of the school year. The Ledges, Copper Mines and other exclusive summertime activities offer exciting weekend activities in the Upper Valley. Unlike during other terms, swimming in the Connecticut River now will not induce hypothermia. But most notably, with just sophomores on campus, an already small school becomes even smaller. Summer is hailed as the pristine time to make new friends among fellow sophomores. Interestingly though, last year, the Office of Undergraduate Evaluation and Research, using data collected from students over three summers, found that only 53 percent of sophomores felt closer with their class at the end of the term, 28 percent less than student expectations. What explains the divide?
(07/04/06 9:00am)
The fact that Hanover, the town with the long six-month winter that students eagerly wish away for warmer temperatures, becomes unbearably hot during the summer months proves that God does in fact have a sense of humor. When the mercury reaches 90 degrees Fahrenheit, it becomes abundantly clear that too much of a good thing can exist. At the onset of the summer, we ask ourselves the question: what is it about sophomore summer that garners its mystique? The answer lies deeper than the stock responses of the beautiful weather or the overall more relaxed attitude on campus.
(04/04/06 9:00am)
With the clear exception of West Point, Dartmouth is the only school where college students wake at daybreak to attend "drill." Simultaneously, unlike the majority of other colleges, at Dartmouth "Beirut" does not refer to some subpar sophomoric drinking game. Instead, it is merely known as the capital of Lebanon. Students embrace the academic and cultural idiosyncrasies that make life in Hanover distinctive from other colleges. Who wants to be ordinary?
(02/16/06 11:00am)
Why does fate necessitate that the Computing Help Desk becomes inundated with broken computers during midterms and finals? The love-hate relationships most students share with their computers illustrate our generation's dependence on technology. It feels like the lifespan of computers rival that of goldfish these days. Technological devices are no longer just machines, rather extensions of our bodies.
(02/02/06 11:00am)
"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons," admitted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II, exemplifying the sometimes necessary triumph of realism over idealism in foreign policy. Despite Stalin's organized mass murders throughout the 1930s, the democratic United States and United Kingdom forged an alliance with the authoritarian Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany. The United States conceded its ideals as the mastermind of the Soviet "gulag archipelago" became the seemingly amiable ally "Uncle Joe" Stalin.
(01/19/06 11:00am)
While our grandparents' generation has earned the epitaph of "The Greatest Generation" on the basis of everyday conversations between friends about our typical situations, it is quite likely that our generation will be deemed "The Awkwardest Generation."
(11/15/05 11:00am)
The war was "unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by the President" and justified by the "sheerest deception." These are not the words of some liberal New England Democrat about the current Iraq war, but those of Congressman Abraham Lincoln in the U.S. House of Representatives in Jan. 1848, explaining his opposition to the ongoing Mexican War. Conservative pundit Sean Hannity's nineteenth-century counterpart would have labeled the Illinois Representative an "apologist" for the bellicose Mexicans and responsible for emboldening America's enemies and endangering American soldiers. Does Abraham Lincoln hate America?
(11/07/05 11:00am)
With the election of petition candidates Peter Robinson '79 and Todd Zywicki '88 to the Board of Trustees in the hotly contested May election, along with the recent Homecoming Alumni Association elections, unsettling political undertones permeate the debate about the future of the College, especially "The Lone Pine Revolution," the anti-Wright administration movement to change the direction of the College. Dartmouth alumni and the media are divided not just into pro- and anti-establishment factions, but into corresponding political camps. Conservative alumni and media appear to be supporting the anti-establishment petition candidates while liberals have seemingly embraced the Wright Administration.
(10/19/05 9:00am)
Since when did our own weather patterns begin to mirror "The Day After Tomorrow?" The 2004 blockbuster film about a meteorological apocalypse no longer seems like a complete computer-generated Hollywood fantasy. In the aftermath of recent severe weather events, spanning from the Gulf Coast to right here in Hanover to elsewhere, I finally appreciate the value of the hyperbolic film, beyond its entertaining wolf-related action sequences. With humans exacerbating the rise of global temperatures, we are feeling today the meteorological effects of an occasionally abusive relationship between man and nature. This relationship needs to undergo therapy.
(10/05/05 9:00am)
Watching four '09s simultaneously whip out their cell phones and exchange phone numbers, my friends and I chuckled as we ate dinner at Food Court the other week. However, the joke is on us. No longer simply the hallmark of un-assimilated freshmen, cell phones have become the fall's hottest new accessory across campus. Rather than receiving a culture shock, the '09s are shocking the culture. With upgraded cell service in the Upper Valley, cell phones have gone from socially taboo to seemingly ubiquitous, found from the Green to Food Court to fourth-floor Berry and beyond.
(07/19/05 9:00am)
Despite the opportunity to establish themselves as powerful aristocrats, America's Founding Fathers rejected gentries and instilled the infant nation with republican principles. However, the recent Live 8 concert in Philadelphia, mere blocks from the site of the signing of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, demonstrates that an American aristocracy actually exists today. In lieu of an American Habsburg, Valois or Windsor, the names Spears, Cruise and Lopez, along with the entire class of American celebrities, embody the modern nobility, whose presence influences our entire society.
(05/10/05 9:00am)
JonBenet Ramsey, Scott Peterson, O.J. Simpson, Kato Kaelin, Chandra Levy, Gary Condit, Terri Schiavo, Martha Stewart, Elian Gonzalez, Monica Lewinsky, Michael Jackson. What do all these individuals have in common?
(04/26/05 9:00am)
With the Bush Administration's assault on Social Security and nomination of a vehement anti-internationalist to the United Nations, it is likely that Franklin Delano Roosevelt will soon rise from his grave to exact revenge upon those dismantling his powerful legacy. Today, in the face of pundits who declare that the Democratic Party is devoid of ideas that capture the American imagination, Democrats need to remember their longstanding tradition of bold ideas and action on both the domestic and global stage. The same grand vision needs to be rekindled today.